CANADA STOCKS-TSX rises as banks gain; gold miners weigh

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* TSX up 41.65 points, or 0.27 percent, at 15,238.83

* Gain followed sharpest fall in a month on Wednesday

TORONTO, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Canada’s main stock index rose on Thursday, helped by broad gains for financial stocks a day after the U.S. Federal Reserve hiked interest rates and struck a hawkish note on further increases, a move which weighed on Canadian gold miners.

Energy stocks also gained despite a pullback in oil prices caused in part by a surging U.S. dollar, while Bombardier surged 3.7 percent to C$1.98 after saying growth in its rail business and the ramp-up of the C Series aircraft program should help boost full-year consolidated revenue in 2017 by a low single-digit percentage..

At 10:09 a.m. EDT (1509 GMT), the Toronto Stock Exchange’s S&P/TSX composite index was up 41.65 points, or 0.27 percent, at 15,238.83. It had its sharpest fall in a month in the prior session.

A string of gold miners topped the list of the index’s most influential weights, with Barrick Gold Corp falling 3.7 percent to C$18.81 and Yamana Gold Inc down 6.4 percent at C$3.49.

Gold prices hit their lowest level since early February as the Fed’s policy statement pushed U.S. bond yields up, lifting the opportunity cost of holding the non-yielding precious metal.

The materials group, which includes precious and base metals miners and fertilizer companies, lost 1.8 percent.

Canadian manufacturing sales unexpectedly fell 0.8 percent in October from September on widespread weakness, indicating fourth-quarter growth could be sluggish, Statistics Canada data showed on Thursday. (Reporting by Alastair Sharp; Editing by Paul Simao)